Posts Tagged ‘ Application ’

IIS Reverse Proxy. It Even Works. Can’t Modify HTTP Response Headers.

2017/10/30
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Modified: 2017/10/31
IIS-Reverse-Proxy

Description of a Problem You have a custom WEB application that runs inside your enterprise on some internal server and on some custom port.  How to make this application accessible from outside through a published HTTP link on port 80?   Proposed Solution On your production IIS server you create a directory that is accessible from outside on port 80.  Then you configure a Reverse Proxy solution described here.  This way neither you, nor your clients have to open custom ports on their firewalls.   How Does It Work IIS server receives HTTP request on port 80 through corporate firewalls. It then translates request according to routing rules to a destination on…

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Amazon Linux Apache 2.4 reverse proxy with SSL to serve Node.js application

2017/10/09
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Modified: 2017/10/09
SSL Test Report

Recently, I spent about 36 hours researching, and thinking, and trying, and learning a lot about Apache server before I could crack this one.  After I found a solution, a had a long <VirtualHost> entry.  In this article I present only entries that are required for reverse proxy to work and your Node.js app still to be aware of client IP address. Problem: You want Apache 2.4 to be your front end for your Node.js application.  All the transaction should occur over HTTPS. Your visitors do not have to specify a post number in URL. I do not cover here: – how to install and configure Node.js; – how to get a…

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